One of the topics that the book covers – albeit lightly is the concept of hedonistic (living for the moment) vs value-based (eudaimonic) happiness. Situations that encourage flow have a clear set of goals, provide immediate feedback, and provide a balance between the challenge of the task and the skills of the person. Flow is intrinsically rewarding and sometimes results in a loss of awareness of bodily needs – so forgetting to eat or go to the bathroom.
It is characterized by a high degree of focus or limited field of attention, loss of self-consciousness – merging action and awareness, and timelessness (loss of time). His book Finding Flow: The Psychology of Engagement with Everyday Life is accessible to anyone and talks about the research about how people enjoy – or don’t enjoy their lives and how that is related to the time they spend in the state called “flow.”įlow is the mental state of operation in which a person in an activity is fully immersed in a feeling of energized focus, full involvement, and success in the process of the activity. I feel like I spend much of my days in “flow” and the description of it helps me to explain to others something that has been difficult to explain. I’ve been a fan of Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi’s work since first seeing his work.
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